I don't what it is about some women, they just look sexy. They seem to have a smoldering seductiveness about them. Maybe it is something in they way they walk, or the way they carry themselves but they just seem to have a manner that screams out their sensuality. That was the way it was when the pretty little blond first caught my eye. She just looked hot, ready for action. She had a sexy sway to her hips as she sauntered over towards me. I noticed her hair first, then the short, tight skirt. The long trim legs that disappeared under the tiny skirt she wore. Man, I wanted me some of that.
Then I looked into her face, a face that appeared very familiar to me. Her bright blue eyes gleaming out at me with friendliness. I knew this woman. She looked just like my wife, my estranged wife I guess. But my wife has shoulder length dark brown hair and wonderful brown eyes with gold flecks. But still, she had the high cheekbones, the cute little nose. She looked so much like my wife that they could be twins. Perhaps it is my loneliness, my need to get back with my wife that made me think it was her then...
"Hey sexy, want to take me out?" The woman asked with a pleasant but smoldering voice.
It was her, it was my Shannon.
"Shannon? Is that you?" I asked incredulously as I gazed into her face hoping for recognition.
"Jason? What are you doing down here?" She asked with a funny little giggle.
"Shannon!" I screamed out angrily. "What happened to you? What are you doing?" I grabbed her arm and turned her towards me.
"Let go Jason, you're hurting my arm." She replied. "Silky!" She called out.
"Shannon, please honey, what are you doing?" I pleaded as I was grabbed by the arm and spun around.
A large black man loomed over me. He punched me in the stomach with his fist and I doubled over. As I grabbed my aching stomach his knee came up and caught me in the nose and mouth. I went down onto my knees and crumpled over into a ball trying to protect myself from further injury.
"Silky, don't kill him!" I heard Shannon's voice call out into the haze as I passed out from the blow that reigned down onto my head.
When I awoke, my battered head was being cradled in the arms of a large woman. I struggled for a second and then a soft hand touched my face.
"Its okay sugar, it's over. Lay still, I have you." I heard a calm voice trying to sooth me through the edges of darkness and the throbbing pain in my head and neck.
That was almost a year ago. I had recovered from the beating months ago and was none the worse for wear but I was much wiser. I had filed for divorce just weeks after the beating and had only seen Shannon once since then. It was an arbitration meeting that the court ordered as a normal routine with divorce proceedings in our area. The meeting was held in a small office in her attorney's building. Just her and me, face to face. I was very hesitant to see her again as my feelings of anger and betrayal were still very strong but I wanted this divorce to move forward so I could move on with my life. I arrived right on time for the arbitration and was escorted into the tiny and sparsely furnished space. I secretly hoped for a reconciliation but I was also a realist and knew that it was not likely. Shannon was seated at the small wooden table that took up most of the space in the room. I immediately held my breath and realized that I still loved this woman.
"Hello Jason." Her soft but cold voice greeted me as I sat down.
"Hi Shannon, how are you?" I asked as I took in her features. She was still young, 23, and beautiful but she appeared tired and not well.
"Good. I see you have survived." She responded. Her hair, still blond, was cut in a short stylish way that made her looks so different than she did before our parting but it was kind of tired and limp looking too. Her eyes were again quite brown but were dilated and they had kind of a glaze to them.
"I have missed you so much." I said as I tried to gauge her feelings towards me. "I still love you." I whispered as I hoped she would reply the same way.
"Right, whatever." Was the only thing she said. Her tone was without feeling and my heart broke.
"Well, so do you need anything?" I asked once again hoping for a morsel of affection from her. She stared at me for about a minute or perhaps longer and then she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small piece of pink stationary paper.
"It's all on here. Can I go now?" She remarked with almost a sneer on her face as she stood up from her side of the table. I then took notice of what she was wearing. She was almost poured into a bright red knit dress that revealed all of her curves. It was short and barely covered her underwear, if she was wearing any. I couldn't tell. Obviously, she was not wearing a bra as her nipples protruded through the material and made two sharp points. I immediately felt a warm feeling in my groin area from her appearance.
"Yes, but can you please stay a moment for me?" I pleaded with her with my eyes and my voice which almost broke as I asked her to stay.
"Look Jason, this is what you wanted, and I have to go to work." She hissed as she pushed back from her chair and began walking towards the door.
"Shannon, please..." I said but was abruptly interrupted as she walked from the room and shut the door. I sat down and stared at the door where the love of my life had just walked away from me. Tears filled my eyes and it took me a while to compose myself. I finally blew my nose into my handkerchief and sat back to examine the note she had handed me.
I immediately recognized the paper in my hands. It was from a stationary set I had given her for Christmas just a year ago but it felt like a lifetime ago. I held the paper to my nose and inhaled. The paper smelled of her, her scent. I closed my eyes and thought of how the scent was usually on her clothes and hair; it was her essence. I unfolded the paper and began to read the words in Shannon flowing script.
Jason,
I want to you to know that I have always loved you, and I still do. This is the way you wanted things when you pushed me into the arms of another man, Silky. I have everything from you that I want from our life together, my clothes and my car. Don't ever try to find me and don't ever try to contact me again.
Shannon
I read the note completely through three of four times hoping to find different words or to see a different meaning in her words but it was not to be. I folded the note up and pushed it into the pocket of my suit coat...But that was a time ago...
I almost didn't recognize her because she had changed so much is such a short period of time. I mean she was my wife after all. We had been separated for almost a year and the divorce was proceeding agonizingly slow through the court system. The feelings I had for her, at this time, were not as raw as before as time had slowly healed the deep wounds that the breakup had inflicted.
I guess that one of the reasons I didn't recognize her was her hair. It had been dark brown, very straight and about down to her breasts when we parted. It was now cut into a short blond bob. It was kind of curly as if it had been permed or something and it just changed the way she looked. The other major change was the additional weight she was carrying now. She appeared to be about 15 pounds heavier than I last remembered her. She had always been very thin and shapely. Like a model. She worked our extensively at the gym and barely weighed 120 when we parted. She wore the additional weight well as it gave her curves a nice soft roundness.
One of the most striking things about her was the extra makeup she was now wearing around her eyes. She had previously been able to get by with just a light amount of makeup to give her a natural appearance but now she looked almost whorish. Her eyes were heavily made-up with dark mascara and a deep brown shade of eye shadow. It was a cheap slutty look that I appreciated seeing in some women, just not the women I was out with.
I think she was surprised that I recognized her or that I would even approach and talk with her. Her leaving me had been abrupt and took me entirely off-guard. I walked up to her and with a smile said.
"Hi Shannon, how are you?" I meant it all quite sincerely and I think this also unnerved her.
"Oh, Hey Jason, She smiled back at me as she replied. I reached out to her and pulled her to me for a hug. She returned the embrace and I felt her melt into my arms. The body I was holding was very familiar to me but it seemed to have a much softer and warmer feel than I last remembered it. The hug embrace lingered much longer than I had expected but I was not complaining. We slowly broke it off and I looked down into her face.
"Shannon, how have you been? You have changed your look?" I studied her face waiting for her response.
"Okay." Was her soft reply. It seemed to betray how she was really doing so I pushed her further.
"Okay? Just okay?" I exclaimed in a questioning manner. Shannon broke my gaze and then replied.
"Yeah, just okay." She seemed to sigh as she said it and she tried to smile but it was strained.
"I am just going to have lunch, have you eaten?" I inquired as we stepped back from one another. "No, I was just headed out for a bite myself." She offered as she looked back into my eyes.
"Join me?" I asked.
"Are you sure?" She returned.